Coast Guardsmen/women who have not been to school yet are called Seaman. My last name sounds like "slime". Over the PA system, when I received a telephone call. "Now Seaman Slime, you have a phone call..." You crack me up Dr. Grumpy

I needed to leave a message for the pharmacist that was in the next day, so I asked the tech to look at the schedule...me: who's the pharmacist in tomorrow?tech: Aymin (pronounced "I'm in")me: that's great, but I need to know the pharmacist...tech: Aymin.You can imagine how the rest of the conversation went.Names are glorious.

That's as bad as sitting on a 4 hr plane ride with a grumpy toddler listening to my husband gleefully tell a fellow passenger we were headed to Ware (Ma.) when asked where we were headed. Soooo painful!

Welcome to my whining!

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